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We're mighty proud of our new hybrid 
eucumber—the ‘Early Surecrop.” The 
All-America Selections Committee award- 
ed it a bronze medal last year, making it 
the first hybrid cucumber ever to win such” 
an award. In case you haven’t noticed its 
picture on the front cover of our big 
spring catalog, take a look at it. There’s 
a picture of the medal there, too. 
In trial grounds all over the country 
Early Surecrop was found to be one of 
the very finest eucumbers of its kind. Has 
every quality you could want in a slicing 
cucumber. It’s highly resistant to heat 
and drouth, to Mosaic and Downy Mildew. 
Is tremendously productive, bearing early 
(60 days) and over a long period of time. 
In fact, it bears so heavily that one packet 
of seeds usually produces more than 
enough cucumbers for two or three fami- 
lies. Fruits are dark green, about 8 
inches or more long, and have rather flat, 
blunt ends. . Its flesh is the best eating 
there is, being unusually delicious, crisp, 
and of excellent quality. If you like cu- 
cumbers, don’t pass up Early Surecrop. 
We just can’t say enough for it. 
No. 370S—Early Surecrop Hybrid Cu- 
cumber. Packet (30 seeds) 25c; % oz. 
$3.00; 1 oz. $5.00; %4 Ib. $13.00; 1% Ib. 
$25.00, postpaid. 
Proud as Punch 
“Dear Mrs. Field: I want to thank you for 
the Magnolia Tree you sent me. It came 
Saturday and is a darling. It is twice as 
large as I expected and is as shapely and 
symmetrical as can be. If I had been given 
my pick of a thousand I couldn’t have got- 
ten a nicer one. I’m as proud as punch of it 
and want everyone who comes on the place 
to see it.,—Amy R. McCartg, Hannibal, Mo. 
New Improved Spirea Anthony 
Waterer 
Probably one of the ~-brightest and 
showiest of all the small shrubs we have 
is the Spirea Anthony Waterer. We have 
gradually developed a small stock of a 
new Spirea, called Spirea Japonica coc- 
cinea, which grows just like Anthony Wa- 
terer, except that its flowers are a much 
brighter crimson and do not fade the way 
the flowers of Spirea Anthony Waterer do. 
We thought we might have enough this 
year to entirely replace Spirea Anthony 
Waterer in our big spring catalog, but we 
didn’t. So we are offering the ones we 
do have in this issue of Seed Sense. 
For those of you who: are not familiar 
with Spirea Anthony Waterer, it grows 
-about 2 feet high and gets almost as 
broad. During the summer, the tops of 
the plants are covered with flat heads of 
brilliant red flowers, which make a very 
bright showing. Its leaves are small and 
ferny. Because of these qualities, it is 
one of the most satisfactory of all small 
shrubs; and is very useful for home plant- 
ing, particularly for new small homes, and 
for planting around the steps and founda- 
tions of ary home. 
A14978S. The price is 59c each, postpaid. 
The number is- 
Ever Try Bug Dust for These? 
Bug Dust has been almost miraculous 
in its work wherever used. We get hun- 
dreds of letters from customers saying 
they couldn’t garden without it. But 
most interesting are all the uses they cook 
up for it besides using it as combination 
insecticide and fungicide at which it is so 
successful. Here are just a few of many 
hundreds. Maybe you will find some you 
will like to try. 
1. “We mix Bug Dust with water and 
pour it around trees to get those grubs or 
borers.” 
2. “I dust Bug Dust on my sweet corn 
silks and am never bothered by ear 
worms.”’ 
3. “I stir Bug Dust in the soil of my 
house plants to stop those little black flies 
which come from those white worms.’’ 
4. “We mix Bug Dust in the soil when 
planting melons and the like to stop ro- 
dents from bothering them. Three cheers 
for Henry Field’s Bug Dust.’’ 
5. “TI dusted the window sill that Box 
Elder bugs came in with Henry Field’s 
Bug Dust and not a one’is in sight now. 
I have tried every preparation known, and 
this is the first that stopped them in their 
tracks.”’ 
Bug Dust has made a real reputation 
and that’s understandable. It leaves ab- 
solutely no poisonous residue like Ar- 
senics, and is as effective as anything we 
know. When you’re troubled with bugs, 
try Henry Field’s Bug Dust. 
No. 4022S—Henry Field Bug Dust. 1 
Ib. 49c; 3 lbs. $1.18; 5 Ibs. $1.75, post- 
paid. 
No. 4100XS—SPECIAL OFFER. 2 lbs. 
Bug Dust and Duster only $1.39, postpaid. 
Home Peach Orchard 
You ought to have 
a home peach or- 
chard. Peaches are 
easy to grow, bear 
quickly after plant- 
ing and yield lots of 
fruit that can be 
used for eating off 
the tree, freezing, 
preserves and in all 
kinds of cooked 
dishes. 
As some of you.know, peach trees are 
rather scarce this spring, due to the fact 
there was a failure of peach seed two 
years ago. A lot of companies probably 
won’t have many peach trees to sell this 
spring. So, if we offer a very good price 
on peach trees during this scarce season, 
we think it would be a good fair deal to 
you folks who are our customers. We 
have looked over our list of varieties and 
have tried to choose just the very finest 
for this collection. If you know peach 
varieties, you will recognize these at once 
as being the very top varieties. If you 
do not, just ask someone who knows 
about peaches or just take our word for 
it. You won’t go wrong. 
We offer: 1 Elberta, the old standard 
that’s ,the most popular peach in the 
world today; 1 Polly, brand new and best 
white peach; 1 Hale Haven, of such fine 
quality that it is gradually taking the 
place of Elberta in‘many areas; and 1 Red 
Haven, which is a lot like Hale Haven, ex- 
cepting that it is bright red, is earlier and 
one of the few peaches that does not 
brown in freezing. We offer you the fine - 
quick-bearing 4- to 6-foot size. No. 
A2773XS. All 4 peaches (valued at $1.19 
each in our spring catalog) for $3.89, ex- 
press not prepaid. 
_ HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR MARCH, 1951—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 3 
Our “Early Surecrop” Hybrid 
~ Cucumber Wins All-America 
Award! 
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20-Pound Cabbage 
“Dear Mrs. Field: I am sending you a 
picture of me and my cabbage. It weighed 
20 lbs. and is the largest cabbage I ever 
raised. We buy lots of Henry Field seeds 
and nursery stock and sure think you 
have good stuff. Our Chinese Elms and 
Rosa Multiflora did a swell job of grow- 
ing last summer and we had more garden 
than we could use.’’—Mrs. H. A. Core, 
Rt. 2, Elliot, Iowa. 
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Golden Wedding 
“Dear Sirs: I am‘sending you a picture 
of my husband and I taken on our 50th 
wedding anniversary. We are both 74 
years old. We bought seed from your 
house 30 years or more ago and you are 
getting a small order this year.’’—Mrs. 
Anna Kershner, Falling Waters, W. Va. 
Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Kersh- 
ner. We’re proud to have had you as cus- 
tomers all these years.—Mrs. H. F. 
And Up Came Cauliflower! 
“Dear Sirs: We enjoy your seed catalog 
very much and want 
to thank you for all 
the valuable infor- 
mation in it. You 
seem so understand- 
ing and friendly, we 
decided to send you 
a picture of our 3% 
yr. old Mary Mar- 
garet. She’s holding 
a fine Cauliflower 
taken from our gar- & 
den. We just } 
dropped a few seeds 
in the garden and 
up came cauliflower 
plants galore!’’?— 
Mr. & Mrs. R. D. 
Magnas, 237 N. War- 
man Ave., Indiana- 
polis, Ind. 
